What is matter without gravitational pull? Something matters only when there’s an attribution of gravity, of severity. But who allots said importance is the issue; and how it’s conducted to be addressed is the fight.

The demonstrations that have flooded NYC, both in and outside the infamous OWS movement, are all I can speak for. Media channels bombard us with the idea that the west has once again led the rest, and I am vehemently countering that here. The “occupy movement” may be in solidarity with NYC but cannot uniformly represent our city, our issues, when they have a slew of their own! Nor should it.

Mass unrest leads to mass arrests. Any attempt of the populace to open their tombs of resentment is met with repression. As lines of – to take a friend’s term – blue shirts hold hands, form barricades on the streets, mount helpless animals in the heart of capitalism’s flashy billboard hub (Times Sq) some begin to chant “this is a non violent protest!”. But the need to present this disclaimer has my mind spinning, and I beg to implore why the mere presence of cops stirs even pacifists’ blood…

It’s the potentiality of our bodies colliding – under the presence of coercive force that scares us all. But how come we aren’t used to this by now? If so much degradation has been going on for years… are you telling me it was with our permission?

Are we leading up to the idea that much of the destruction has been largely “invisible”? A silent struggle…
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one around to hear it…

The streets are hardly what they look like in places like Rome…

 

The one striking aspect that these international movements do have in common: Guy Fawkes masks.
Mainstreamed via the movie V for Vendetta; synonymous now with the “internet movement” Anonymous.

I’m curious as to what others think about this idea of global integration, though.
After all, social movement are not meant to be chewed, regurgitated, or swallowed in one sitting, or in solitude..